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4. Brief Tutorial on Raspberry Pi Essentials

Guy Hart-Davis

(1)Barnard Castle, Startforth Grange Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK

This chapter makes sure you know the essentials of using and configuring a Raspberry Pi computer. We’ll begin with startup, shutdown, and restart; move along to other actions you can take from the login screen; and then meet the desktop and its components. From there, we’ll look at how to configure your pointing device, keyboard, and network connection; work with the wide-ranging Raspberry Pi Configuration tool; and then examine how to configure and navigate the desktop. Toward the end of the chapter, I’ll show ...

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